COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONBottle: Filtered.
Brewed from 1990 to 2008 by Black Mountain Brewing Co. Production transferred to Cervecería Mexicana in 2008 when the Black Mountain Brewing Co. ceased as a brewery.
"Golden, very low carbonation, pale lager with a whole chili pepper in the bottle."
Website: http://www.chilibeer.com/

So... I got this in a beer exchange. The person who bought it actually liked it. So I figured I’d give it a try. It looks and smells like an American macro pilsner, with a serrano pepper in it. The taste starts with a hint of sweet, before the pepper burn kicks in. The burn does stay only in the mouth, and doesn’t follow down the throat... but that doesn’t make it good. I like spicy foods, but there needs to be some other flavor besides just the pepper. A one note beer, best given as a joke to someone you dislike.

A very complex beer I must certainly admit. Only the clear bottle where you can see a whole chili swim around can discourage most. The strong chili dominate both fragrance and taste totally.
For a reason that I do not quite even know, I find it anyway inspiring and tasteful for a large American cheeseburger with french fries and ketchup all over the place.

Poured from a 12 OZ bottle into a pint glass at the World of Beer in Pooler, GA. The floating chili pepper is pure gimmicky genius and I love the fiery flavor of this. But hey, I also loved almost every pepper and habanero flavored beer I have had to date. If it is well chilled the flavor is killer and in my humble opinion it gets the party rolling with all kinds of potential session drinking.

Pale yellow color almost transparent with a very thin head and a pepper inside! Aroma is chili pepper, very very very spicy. Flavor is awful! Pour pepper! High carbonation and watery body with a damn spicy finish.

Well, this one was not too shabby. The beer was past its BBE, slightly oxidised in a honeyish way. No head whatsoever. The serrano pepper was responsible for the aroma and flavour mostly. Chili overkill basically, very hot but drinkable. Interesting beer/gadget.

Not much smell to this only a little bit of spice... The appearance is standard light beer but gains a point For the floating chilli inside! Taste is spicy, more than I would have thought for mass produced...beer taste is way in the background though...basically drinking chili water mixed with a crappy beer

Bottle @home. Pours clear golden with fast disappearing tiny white head and a chili. Aroma lemon, sole spices. Medium carbonation, light mouthfeel. Taste bit spicy, lemon, but also bit watery. It does have a nice spicyness in the back of your mouth.

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